Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a lively start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice calls throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already brought some ant calls reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will be a active year for ant calls.
Usually ants make their nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The release of many thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrific indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very troublesome in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in large numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Very often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and buy new.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within around five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.
A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, they eat you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814